WINTER 2018-2019 EVENTS

Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN.

THROUGH NOVEMBER 24

I Scarce Can Take It In

The four artists in this show fall in the general category of “outsider” artists, though each has their own approach to and relationship with art. The late Rev. Albert Wagner, a Clevelander who died in 2006 at the age of 82, most closely adhered to the model: he discovered art at the age of 50 and began churning out his religiously themed paintings on any object he could find. He’s said to have made more than 3,000 works. Martha Cliffel’s assemblages are an enchanting treasure chest of found items, including religious medals, playing cards, dice and doll parts, that make sly statements about the role of women in society and the church. Gadi Zamir’s intricate altar-like creations fashioned from scavenged wood and Misty Lindsey’s text-based art round out the show.

WORTHINGTON YARDS

THROUGH DECEMBER 1

Altered Value: The Art of Funny Money by Josh Usmani

TREGONING & COMPANY

THROUGH DECEMBER 2

Allen Ruppersberg: Then and Now

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH DECEMBER 2

Martine Syms: An Evening with Queen White

MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH DECEMBER 5

Ceramics Student Show

ORANGE ART CENTER

THROUGH DECEMBER 7

23rd People’s Art Show

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

THROUGH DECEMBER 14

47th Annual Juried Art Exhibit

VALLEY ART CENTER

THROUGH DECEMBER 14

ThinkCraft: Fresh Takes

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

THROUGH DECEMBER 16

Barbara Bloom: The Rendering (H x W x D =)

The FRONT International Triennial is over but a few exhibits remain on view. One that’s worth the drive to Oberlin is this installation in which Bloom chose paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from the Allen’s collection and created three-dimensional architectural elements that echo elements in the works and draw them out of their planes. In addition, her constructions hold a visual conversation with the architecture of the gallery itself, designed by noted architect Robert Venturi.

Cats & Dogs featuring the work of George Kocar, Gerry Shamray & Friends

THE ART GALLERY, WILLOUGHBY

THROUGH DECEMBER 31

Greg Martin: Seen and Not Seen

MASSILLON MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JANUARY 4

Jessica Pinsky Solo Exhibition

HEDGE GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 6

Deb Pinter: Botanical, An Intimate Portrait

SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 11

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: The House and the City

1POINT618 GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 13

In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar

TRANSFORMER STATION

THROUGH JANUARY 20

Annual All-Judson Park Art Show

JUDSON PARK

THROUGH JANUARY 21

Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’Medici’s Valois Tapestries

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925

Ohio-born Clarence H. White is one of the best-known artists to come out of the Pictorialist movement, known for its dreamy photos arranged to depict moods, emotions or tell stories rather than observe life as it is, often using manipulation and vintage processes. White was inspired to take up photography after a trip to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 and became a key member of Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secession movement, formed in 1902 to promote Pictorialism. White didn’t do much work after WWI and he died young, in 1925 at the age of 54. But he left behind a body of introspective, romantic work that seems simultaneously both antique and timeless.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JANUARY 21

Allison Zuckerman: Pirate and Muse

Jeff Donaldson: Dig

Donaldson was a co-founder of AfriCOBRA, an art movement launched in 1968 on the south side of Chicago. These activists/artists sought to make work that reflected black culture and politics, intended for a black audience. Donaldson’s paintings, prints and mixed media works, with their brilliant color, intricate patterns and African motifs, epitomize what the group was aiming for. This is Donaldson’s first museum retrospective, and features his classic AfriCOBRA work, along with his lesser-known work from the 1980s-00s, including some never exhibited previously.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JANUARY 27

Camel Collective: Gated Commune + Grip

Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle

Rockman is a New York-based painter and environmental activist who incorporates site-specific materials such as soil or sand into his deeply researched mixed-media works that project what environments may look like in the future based on their past and present. This exhibit centers on five new mural-sized works, along with field drawings, watercolors and a documentary film, which look at the Great Lakes, their significance and the threats they face.

MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH MARCH 3

The Fabricators

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH APRIL 14

Brian Bress: Pictures Become You

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH APRIL 30

Claudia Comte: Zigzags & Diagonals

MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH JULY 14

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2

Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video

MOCA CLEVELAND

NOVEMBER

16

CAN Journal Winter Issue Launch

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

Time Warp

Reception 5-9 pm

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

Recent Acquisitions: 2015-2018

Through February 15

ARTNEO

Ya-Lan Yu pop-up exhibition, hosted by Zygote PressYa-Lan Yu is a Taipei-based printmaker who is in town as part of the TaipeiXCLE artist residency at Zygote Press. Her favored process is woodcuts, which she uses to create landscapes that reflect her personal feelings and life experiences.Reception & artist talk 6-8 pmThrough November 23CWAL GALLERY, 78TH STREET STUDIOS

Holiday Treats

Through December 21

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Jessica Pinsky: Dissection

Through December 28

HEDGE GALLERY

Cleveland Flea

Through November 18

THE MADISON

Vivid Stories: Bess Rodriguez Richard

Richard, whose parents were diplomats, lived in many countries and cities (including Cleveland). But Mexico had a particularly strong influence on her color-drenched paintings, regardless of what country is depicted in her landscapes and semi-abstract florals. She gives her landscapes an extra boost with an underpainting technique that makes them seem to sparkle.

Reception 5:30-8 pm

Through January 12

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

James Webb: It’s Not What It Looks Like, an Audio Guide to Getting Lost

Sarah Kabot: Forgetting Lessons

Reception 6-9 pm

Through January 11

SPACES

17

Family Open Studio

1–3 pm

ART HOUSE

Holiday Shop/Season of Gratitude with the Gathering Place

Through December 22

BAYARTS

18

Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print

Through March 24

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

23

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Through March 3

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Crafty Mart Holiday Market

Through November 24

NORTHSIDE MARKETPLACE, AKRON

24

Family Clay Day

10 am-noon

ART HOUSE

Cleveland Bazaar at Winterfest

10 am-8 pm

5th STREET ARCADES

28

In Borders and Boundaries: Nancy Schwartz-Katz

Reception 6:30-9 pm | Artist talk 7 pm

Through January 5

SHAKER COMMUNITY GALLERY

29

Holiday Shop

Through November 30

MYERS SCHOOL OF ART EMILY DAVIS GALLERY

30

Holiday ExtravaganzArt!

Through December 31

ART AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE

Community Culture Night with filmmaker Ted Sikora

7-8:30-pm

ART HOUSE

Off the Wall Members Showcase

Reception 5-8 pm

Through December 15

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Holiday Market on the Farm

3-7 pm

HALE FARM & VILLAGE

DECEMBER

1

Collecting First Nations Art with John Kunikis

1-3 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

31st Annual ArtCraft Show

11 am-7 pm Saturday | 11 am-5 pm Sunday

ARTCRAFT BUILDING, CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Cleveland Bazaar

10 am-6 pm

LAKE AFFECT STUDIOS

Tower Press Artists Open Studio & Holiday Sale

11 am-7 pm

TOWER PRESS BUILDING

Morgan Market Holiday Sale

Through December 23

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Holiday Circlefest

WADE OVAL/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

5

Ceramics Student Show

Closing Reception 5-7 pm

ORANGE ART CENTER

6

Artists Select 2018

The offbeat premise for this show was to ask a group of five artists to pick another artist to show in the gallery. Next year those artists will pick an artist—and so on. The result is artists who aren’t widely known and whose work could be a revelation—or not. Surprise and discovery are part of the fun.

Reception 6-9 pm

YARDS PROJECT SPACE

BAYarts Holiday Trunk Show

6-9 pm

BAYARTS

7

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Annual Holiday Craft Show Curated by Mary Urbas

6-10 pm

ARTICLE

Off the Wall Holiday Sale & Show

Reception 6-9 pm

Through December 22

ZYGOTE PRESS

8

Cleveland Bazaar Holiday!

10 am-9pm Saturday | 10 am-6 pm Sunday

Through December 9

78th STREET STUDIOS

11

Life Reflected: Marihatt at Kendal a satellite show by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Through February 5

KENDAL AT OBERLIN GALLERY

12

Arts + Crafts Holiday Sale

5-8 pm

ORANGE ART CENTER

13

Bits & Pieces: The Illustration of Red Nose Studio

Through February 1

MYERS SCHOOL OF ART EMILY DAVIS GALLERY

14

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

Aleksandra Domanović

Through March 24

MOCA CLEVELAND

Holiday Market

6-10 pm Saturday | 10 am-6 pm Sunday

Through December 15

SCREW FACTORY

Cleveland Flea Holiday Market

Through December 16

THE MADISON

15

Family Open Studio

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

16

BAYarts Kids Shopping Day

Noon-5 pm

BAYARTS

21

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

Observation/Conservation call to entry opens

VALLEY ART CENTER

Holiday Showcase with seven artists

Reception 5-9 pm

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

22

Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915-1920

Artist Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula, graduated from Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art in 1916 and lived in Salem, Ohio throughout most of his youth and young adult life, becoming known for his evocative nature watercolors. This show brings together 30 drawings he did in his formative years, just out of art school and before leaving northeast Ohio, one of his most productive periods. Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art collection are augmented by others from private collections and the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, where he settled in 1921.

Through May 5

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

23

Crafty Mart Last Call at Goodyear Hall

GOODYEAR HALL, AKRON

JANUARY

2

Early Bird Art & Craft Show call to entry opens

VALLEY ART CENTER

4

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Mindy Tousley: Twist Again

Reception 4:30-6 pm

Through February 24

JUDSON PARK

Identity: Places call to entry closes

VALLEY ART CENTER

2019Q1 Artist Showdown entries due

GALLERY+

5

Mental Structures: Dawn Tekler

Reception 7-9 pm January 12

Through February 24

MASSILLON MUSEUM

10

Residents Select Exhibition

The Yards Project, a gallery located in the lobby and corridors of Warehouse District apartments Worthington Yards, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a show in which the building’s residents chose the artists whose work goes on display. You’ll know some of the names, but not others. The 13 artists they chose include Yvonne Bakale, Julie Friedman, Lori Kella, David King, Aimee Lee, Baila Litton, John A. Sargent III, Nicole Schneider, Susan Squires, Sharon Tousey, Alan Tucker, Eric Vaughn and Rebekah Wilhelm.

Through February 23

YARDS PROJECT/WORTHINGTON YARDS

New Directions: Stephanie Spyker, Joe Karlovac & Austin Turner

HARRIS STANTON AKRON

11

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

2019Q1 Artist Showdown online voting begins

GALLERY +

Jo Ann Giovannitti Rencz: Faithlegs Art & History Re-examined

Justin Brennan, Flood of Memories

Justin Brennan: Ego

Justin Brennan’s expressionistic paintings have become increasingly familiar to local audiences, as he works out of the 78th Street Studios and shows at HEDGE Gallery there. At BAYarts he’ll be showing new works that explore identity and psychology as he explores his own inner landscape through his unsettling semi-abstract portraits.

Shirley Aley Campbell died in August, 2018, at the age of 93. She began painting in the 1940s, so naturally her work, which is now archived at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, evolved through many permutations. But most people know her now for her vibrant, forceful portraits of offbeat people and those on the fringes of normal society: motorcyclists, prostitutes, strippers, bullfighters, or just plain, lumpy everyday folks who might be considered by some to be unworthy of artistic concern but to whom she paid a great deal of attention. Artists Archives gives viewers a chance to bask in and reconsider her work.